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well they are all identical accept for the clock speeds so i would go with the one with the highest clock speeds the 8600gts and just a note in nvidia naming schemes the gts is always better than the gt (save for the old 8800gts vs 8800gt) so i would go with the 8800gt and a higher memory bus is only good for high levels of real time anti aliasing for instance the 8800gtx has a higher memory bus than the 8800 gt the the difference is only noticable at high resolutions with aa and af on. But if i were you i would wait for a little while maybe a couple weeks until they get the geforce 9 series out because the 9600 is going to be a way better card than the 8600

nah the 8800 is not that much cheaper maybe on release it will be and then i will be in luck cus ill buy another 8800gt and run them in sli and lay down the law on almost any game save for microsoft's newest benchmark test of course (crysis)

It is GREAT!!!!! Right now it's only $189 after rebate. I removed the HSF and scraped off the paste. It looked like they applied it with a caulk gun. I then put some Arctic Silver 5 on and it runs nice and cool 50 - 60 C after playing Crysis for an hour or two.